Sunday Dinners?

[Leshaface]

Here it is

Mexican Crookpot Chicken

4 -5 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 (15 1/2 ounce) can black beans , drained
1 (15 ounce) can corn , drained
1 (15 ounce) jar salsa
4 ounces fat free cream cheese
4 ounces nonfat sour cream
Directions:
1 Place all ingredients except cream cheese and sour cream in crock pot.
2 Cook on low 6 hours or on high 4 hours.
3 Last 45 minutes add sour cream and cream cheese.

I usually serve this over rice. And sometimes I serve it in a soft tortilla shell making it a chicken soft taco.

This sounds really good! Gonna do this, this week. Thanks!

 

[AntePrincess]

I specifically don't do Sunday dinners. My mom used like Sunday dinners because that's what she grew up with and it drove my dad crazy. A big mid-day meal breaks the whole day up and you can't go anywhere. My husband would probably LOVE a big Sunday dinner, but I can't bring myself to tie us down that way.

I hear you on that. Today we decided to make the permanent switch to the evening meal for the big dinner... mostly because I was late putting food in the oven.

Alright this may sound odd to some but here goes. Our Sunday dinner is usually a big breakfast. Everyone in my house loves it.

That sounds great to me, actually. We often do omelets for lunch or dinner on a busy day, I can never get enough of breakfast food! I think we'll start doing this for a quick after church brunch, which gives me time to put together the big dinner.

We eat Sunday lunch after church with my extended family every week - my parents, and my sister and her family. My mom used to cook it every week until she had some major surgery last year and now my sister and I rotate with her - sometimes we're all at Mom & Dad's, sometimes here and sometimes at my sister's. We go to church together and then go eat together. It's a wonderful tradition.

I agree it's a wonderful tradition! That's what our Sunday dinners were once upon a time in our family, but circumstances changed, people moved, the same old story. I hope to rebuild that over time!

We all utilize the "time bake" feature on our ovens quite a bit. My mom will often do things like a big ham or a roast and the side dishes to accompany it. My sister and I are more likely to do casseroles or lasagna. Sometimes we do spaghetti or tacos (for spaghetti, I brown the meat ahead of time and heat it in my crock-pot while we're at church then all we have to do after church is boil the noodles; for tacos, we make the meat ahead and re-heat). We enjoy having that time together every week.

Time bake feature? I don't think I've seen that feature before. Is it very common? I'm interested.

 

[Claire&TheBoys]

Time bake feature? I don't think I've seen that feature before. Is it very common? I'm interested.

I thought it was. I think my oven calls it "delayed start" -- I program it to come on at some specified time at a specified temp and bake for a specified length of time.

The original oven installed when my parents built their house in 1972 had the feature - my mom used it almost every Sunday. Even the oven in my old house had it (but the clock kept lousy time, so I didn't use it) and the two ovens my sister has had in her house both had them. It may not be on "base model" ovens.

 

[TimeforMe]

We started this about 2 years ago, even before we had children and LOVE doing it...Sunday is family day around here, I know a lot of people say the same thing but it really is here- it comes with a slow cooked AMAZING meal haha

This is usually our Sunday go to meal...this or Chicken Parm with a homemade sauce

Its called the Lazy Sunday Casserole

The vegetables may vary—depending on what’s in my fridge—but somehow there’s always sausage, potatoes and carrots. The Italian herbs give it a real nice kick while the balsamic gives it a sweet, but slight tangy after taste. Simple and easy comfort food, especially for my little man. Just relax, kick back and let your oven do the work!

Ingredients:

4 sausages (beef or pork)
1 pound potatoes
1/2 pound carrots
1/2 bell pepper
1 large onion
1 fennel bulb
2 garlic cloves
2 tbsp oil
freshly cracked black pepper
1 1/2 tsp Italian herbs
1/2 cup chicken broth
4 tbsp balsamic vinegar

-The rest of the instructions can be found here...


http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/lazy-sunday-casserole

OMG--this looks and sounds awesome. I am definitely going to try this one!